Vivotek and Genetec retcur the guests of the Brazilian hotel Gran Marquise

At this establishment in 18.000 square meters are going to be installed a total of 250 IB8369A and FD8166 network cameras. These are integrated and connected with the rest of access control devices and fire alarm system that are part of the Stratocast video surveillance solution.

One of the largest hotels in Brazil, in the Fortaleza area, which welcomes thousands of people every year and holds hundreds of events, has migrated its security system from an analog environment to one equipped with IP technology.

The Great Marquise is a five star hotel of 18.000 square meters located on the promenade of Fortaleza (Ceará). With a history of 23 Years, it has a large infrastructure of 230 apartments ranging from 29 To 131 square meters, two presidential suites and 21 floors of which 14 are dedicated to rooms and 7 to events, recreation and administration. It is one of the most requested destinations among national and international authorities, artists and athletes.

In this establishment it is planned to install a total of 250 network cameras Vivotek, integrated and connected with the rest of the hotel's devices in the video surveillance solution as a service in the cloud Stratocast of Genetec.

Before renewing your security system, the hotel had 500 analog cameras and 22 installed digital video recorders. This extensive system was limited to providing low-quality images and required a heavy workload to locate and retrieve images from a recorded event.

“We checked our services and saw that we had a good Internet, excellent rooms, perfect service, but if a customer requested images from security cameras, all we could offer were noisy images”, said Jussieudo Gomes, head of the Security and Computer Technology Division of the Hotel Gran Marquise Fortaleza.

Four-phase project

To solve this problem and improve management and safety, a plan was formulated to develop a pilot project with Vivotek and Genetec. Divided into four stages, the objective of the project was to achieve the unification of management, security and marketing and commercial operations.

In the first phase, were replaced 250 analog cameras by 48 Vivotek network cameras. Genetec's Stratocast software was also installed, a cloud video recording tool that doesn't require on-premises servers, allowing you to monitor and share images with fully encoded data.

The models that have been installed are the IB8369A, a camera 2 megapixels capable of capturing high-quality video, with infrared illuminators with a range of up to 30 meters and optimal image quality day and night.

It also has Smart Stream II technology, that optimizes image quality for the most important regions of any scene. Thanks to her, network bandwidth consumption and storage requirements are reduced by up to one 50%.

The other model installed was the FD8166, an ultra-small fixed dome network camera 90 mm in diameter.

“Due to the 'L'shaped layout’ of the hotel, before we had five analog cameras installed on each floor. Two in the hallway, because the distance from one side to the other was too long to monitor with a single analog camera, one in front of the elevator, another covering the 'L’ and one more than for the service area. Now, each floor has only three chambers: one covering the 'L’ and the elevator, another the hallway and a third in the service area. At the reception the same thing happens: we place a different camera on the ceiling, and with only this solution we managed to cover the lobby, the bar, a part of the reception and the staircase of the restaurant”, explains Gomes.

In the second phase, Genetec's Security Center solution was implemented in the interior areas of the hotel. With this platform, the Great Marquise managed to unify operations by combining all IP surveillance systems into a single interface. Now they are connected to the cloud all the controls in the accesses with video surveillance.

The third and fourth stages are still under development. The goal is to install 250 Network cameras in total and unify the security system with access controls and fire alarm system.
KiwiVision analytics software has also been installed, an automatic counting system of people through cameras and 3D sensors, and detecting objects added or removed from a scene. In this way, it is possible to automatically detect if a dangerous object has been left or if something has been stolen from a particular area.

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